Philippa Edmunds, manager at Freight on Rail, Campaign for Better Transport and vice-president at Transport & Environment, Brussels, tells Freight in the City why rail should play an integral role in bringing goods into the UK’s urban conurbations.

Close to 300 delegates headed to Manchester last week to explore the opportunities and challenges facing the logistics sector through the chancellor’s Northern Powerhouse agenda. Freight in the City Spring Summit moved the debate about sustainable urban deliveries away from […]

DHL has called for a consistent approach across key northern cities in their methods of managing freight deliveries. Ian Cooper, director, transport value creation at DHL Supply Chain, stressed the importance of regional, rather than city-specific logistics rules to tackle […]

Learning to “love the truck” will help keep pace with changing consumer-driven delivery demands, delegates were told yesterday at the Freight in the City Spring Summit in Manchester. Ian Stansfield, former Asda VP logistics services and supply chain, said the […]